skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this move's the goalposts a little bit. In the recent MFTF thread people compared the entire 70 years of fusion research funding (about 80 Bn USD) to the Apollo program. This is in the context that the research is heavily underfunded given its applications and potential viability. If we agree that society got an Apollo Program's worth of value out of the Apollo Program, what value has society gained from Facebook's resource usage? A more effective manipulation engine?
Array.shift Optimizations in Firefox's JavaScript Engine (2020)
>(again without presenting evidence that historically extremely difficult problems are close to being solved)

This tells you everything you need to know about the author. Anyone that has solved difficult problems knows that evidence of being close to a solution is not a thing. In fact, by the time you're close, proving you're close is _harder_ than finishing the solution.
Didn't you guys do the same to every other immigrant? Italian? Irish? Even us, slavs?

And isn't affirmative action a form of open racial preference? In my country, there's no way a race would play any benefit in eg. college acceptance... tbf., colleges don't even see the candidates until they're accepted (with few exceptions).
Russia is already at war with Europe, sadly Europe doesn’t seem to acknowledge that yet.
Yes, Metal seems to allow a maximum of 1/2 of the RAM for one process, and 3/4 of the RAM allocated to the GPU overall. There’s a kernel hack to fix it, but that comes with the usual system integrity caveats. https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/2182
I'm surprised to read that for less than 50K elements it's likely to be O(1). It's a clever trick to just move the memory address one element further :)
Given that he says that F11 and F12 were skipped because they didn't exist on the IBM keyboards at the time and given that he listed them starting from F10, it seems reasonable to assume they started assigning the keys from F10 working down, making F4 the next after F5.

Also unless things were different early on, the functions you're listing are the unmodified ones, not the functions you get when holding alt.
> We see this with open chants of "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"

I particularly object to taking worst possible interpretation, and labelling the slogan as a call for ethnic cleansing.

The phrase "will be free" would not normally be interpreted this was in in any other conflict.
it appears that this organization is repeatesly agitating for "threats" publicity in open source.. what is the motivation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=openssf.org
> Edit: what are the arguments against this?

I happen not to agree with them, but leaving that aside they're often that Ok fine, it's a pipeline problem^, but the solution is to address that at every stage, not just the beginning.

(^meaning for example schoolgirls aren't sufficiently interested and encouraged into STEM so university applications are low, so admissions are low, so graduations are low, so job applications are low, so offers are low, so employer gender ratios are low)
Here's an update with official statement from Bluesky

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/jack-dorsey-says-hes-no-lo...
I was surprised when this layout worked:

cabinet 200cm x 92cm top 3cm bottom 15cm scale 5
50cm \* \* 20cm
\* drawer door door drawer
\* drawer ^ ^ drawer
\* ^ ^ < drawer
\* > drawer drawer <

So I inspected the odd shaped element and noticed it would overflow. Probably fine for your purposes.

Super cool!
Your second claim seems to being mistaking their role as telling absolute truth. The very first sentence makes it clear that they are reporting an official government statement, and the next that Israel disputes it and says the PLJ was responsible. This seems very normal for war reporting and I note that they’re very careful to attribute each claim so the reader can decide how much to trust it.

Edit: your first source is a pro-Israeli advocacy group run by a former AIPAC employee, which has marked its coverage of the war with things like baselessly claiming reporters were in on the October 7th attacks:

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-photographers-attack...

Given that in this case they ran a report by a witness, and then publicly updated that to say that a Hamas investigation had called her credibility into question, it’s interesting to note how carefully the “Honest Reporting” writer relies on uncited insinuation or tries to distract your attention to statements by people who are not part of al Jazeera. Again, it’s not great that they ran a story by someone who lied but that’s a hazard of breaking news coverage and it’s hardly unique in the field.
> the health impact of secondhand smoke

Which is Ø. ‘Secondhand smoke’ is just an excellent reframing of ‘smell I dislike.’
The Pythagorean Theorem is one of the oldest theorems in mathematics, and it is also the one with the largest number of known proofs.

> When Calcea and Ne'Kiya set out to create a new Pythagorean Theorem proof, they didn't know that for thousands of years, one using trigonometry was thought to be impossible. In 2009, mathematician Jason Zimba submitted one, and now Calcea and Ne'Kiya are adding to the canon.

A non-circular proof using trigonometry _would_ be interesting, but I didn't find the proof given or linked anywhere in the article.
No, it’s a profession of ideological commitment. What you suggest would get a low to middling score.

Here’s a rubric that’s representative of others I’ve seen: https://www.nas.org/storage/app/media/New%20Documents/Rubric...

Note how saying you’ll “treat everyone the same” will get you penalized. How doing the things they want isn’t enough to demonstrate your commitment to their cause.

They want true believers, but will settle for people who are willing to let others control what they say and do.
He has two.

I have the honor of being the person that incited him to create his first account, which he only used once, to improve something that I said.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alanone1
But wouldn't race-blindness treat everyone the same?

For eg. college acceptance, in my country, there is no was to prefer any kind of race, because colleges don't even see the candidates before they're accepted (with some few exceptions), and things like american "affirmative action" would be seen as directly racist.
anyone knows the status of the React Forget thingy?
The Management Guru Who Knows Why Nothing Works
Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey is no longer on its board
The difference isn’t quite that large as many households are just single people and while the female labor force participation rate increased (34% 1945 vs 57% now) the male labor force participation rate declined ( 83% 1948 vs 68% now). https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300001

Similarly there where a great deal of households in the 1940’a with two working adults.
> many women voluntarily take time off of their career to raise children

Expect there is evidence to suggest that women that earn a higher income are less likely to leave the workforce, which is further influenced by access to affordable childcare and dual incomes.

The point is that when you control for these factors, a woman with the same title and responsibilities as a man will earn less for the same work.
Funny, just drove today in SF and saw and it looks like someone when straight into that house again...

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7475584,-122.44409,3a,75y,89...

The City or the owners should put some bollards and be done with this once and for all. In the past 15 years they had some many cars crashing into their houses.
I have no idea what this has to do with socialism.... I was born in a socialist state, and we were very friendly with huge parts of africa and asia (we were even "the leaders" of the third world (by the proper definition of the third world)).
We are all trained starting from childhood to use a Hero-Villain framework when observing conflicts and it leaves us very confused when the real world is closer to Villain-Villain situation.

Anytime I ever bring up say Kissinger and the crazy realpolitik actions he took, or now this lunatic Ben-Gvir in Israel I’ve recently learned about, other people are trained to see me as a communist or anti-semite immediately, because if I object to a US figure, I must be with the other side, same with Israel.

I don’t really know how to navigate this problem to be honest.

You are 1000% correct al-Qaradhawi is total evil.
I’m not sure how they are locking people to their platforms. Since the beginning of the year I have moved from Android to an iPhone and from a Windows 11 laptop to a MacBook Air. My passkeys moved with me.
I never said speeds are just fine. I said speed limits are fine, but being flagrantly violated. And yes, I agree that road design plays into this.

My experience with the design of many roads suggests that people generally take them far too fast regardless: they cut corners, don't stay fully in their lane, and do lots of other things that indicate they are driving far too fast.
ABEL is a far easier tool for programming PLDs than CUPL or any of the other such languages.
They would be really bad at their job, if they didn't try.
It's cool that scarcity can breed innovation as well. An example I like is how the Swiss went from manufacturing general watches to very successful luxury ones because they were scarce in labour resources and decided to make a pivot given their constraints at the time.
JAK-STAT signaling maintains homeostasis in T cells and macrophages
> refuse to use it

Or they’re a diverse set of people whose views can’t be summarised based on their race and religion alone. I doubt, for example, many of them are in favour of a one-state solution.
One possibility could be a license that requires big companies to dedicate one or more people as maintainers or at least reviewers of a project if they want to get license to use the software.
Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267891
> Not on any third party system, where you're locked out forever if you lose your second factor.

Every two-factor system I've ever seen is actually two-of-three, with an account recovery code that you save elsewhere.

I lost all my two-factor auths when my phone got wrecked, it was annoying to reestablish access to those accounts (and I now use a TOTP client which backs the tokesn up), but it was tedious rather than difficult.
Even Bill Gates has admitted that a big part of their success was just sheer luck. There were many competitors that were pushing far better technology than they had but simply could not get a foot hold in the market.

Just the other day on here I mentioned BeOS/Haiku OS, the tech vision on that thing is astounding but it simply did not pan out into any sort of market success. Same with parts of Commodore, IBM, NeXT. MS did capitalize and manipulate the market to assist themselves and keep competitors out, but just becaused they won doesn't mean they had the best technology.
> We're a big university that is trying to serve the general public, reach students across all demographics, and produce research that is broadly applicable, not narrowly relevant to one segment of the population.

A problem I've seen with this is the assumption that subjects like Physics or Chemistry or Mathematics are not broadly applicable, if it was a discovery or research by a white man.

> We need to hire academic staff who can leverage their own personal, intellectual and cultural background to help us become a "bigger tent", but also put themselves in the shoes of others unlike themselves in the course of their teaching and research.

This last part is just wrong.

You should not assume on your own what the experience of minorities unlike yourself must be like, and then treat them according to whatever you imagined in your mind.

You need to talk to people, of whatever back ground, and find out how they, as individuals, would like to be treated, what their needs are, what they are experiencing, etc.
It's coming! CMUSphinx used to have something like this, and there are some [1] solutions [2] on the horizon.

[1]: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/issues/55

[2]: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines?tab=readme-ov-file#...
https://ararmaher.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/doppler-shift-ana...
Discussion (such as it is) [0] (28 points, 5 hours ago, 4 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267446
The U.S. Constitution provides rights for citizens to have free speech — not non-citizens. And in fact, the U.S. does not allow broadcast companies (along with various others, e.g. common carrier and aeronautical radio companies) to be more than 25% owned by foreign entities unless the FCC specifically approves them: https://www.fcc.gov/general/foreign-ownership-rules-and-poli... And for 60+ years the cap was 20%, and you could not go higher: there was no FCC approval process, and the cap was mandated by Congress. (And alternatives like the Internet didn't exist!)

And the E.U. banned Russia's RT media network, and has strict rules over foreign-owned media. This is all just the pot calling the kettle black to score points with anti-Israel domestic audiences. Literally every country complaining about it has some kind of similar restriction. Qatar doesn't recognize Israel as a state and has funded Hamas for years; Israel banning their state-owned media domestically is only controversial because some people find Israel to be controversial. Qatar complaining about it is especially ironic, since they hand out life sentences in prison for criticizing the Qatari government (e.g. Qatari poet Mohammed al-Ajami).
They require your cv for at least two reasons: 1) to figure out how serious you are, or do you expect they send a screenshot of your LinkedIn profile to their client? if you want to talk to their client, do your homework, if you can’t be bothered, well, will you be bothered when you join? 2) due diligence-are you who you say you are? is your cv in line with your LinkedIn, or are you just one of those AI generated clowns?
Any plans to update again to include React Server Components?
> less than a third

That's still an insane amount of money.
There's a distinction to draw between creating more militant opposition to Israel's occupation and creating more Hamas. A category error I think a lot of people make when discussing this is to presume Hamas is a normal representation of armed resistance. At least since 2017, and arguably before, it has been a deeply abnormal armed resistance movement.

You might have reasons to believe that Israel's persecution of Hamas is going to generate a new generation of Hamas, but reasonable people might disagree and say that to the extent Israel is creating new militants, they're likely to look more like Fatah's armed wing than Hamas.
Would it be interesting if Github (and others) had a program where they would verify people using the same regulations the banking industry uses for KYC (know your customer)?

Optional step for developers to show they are who they say they are?
Braun has an incredible design legacy. I had no idea there's an annual collectors fair. Add that to my bucket list.
I find it amusing that pols like Gov DeSantis do their performative rain dances and then are surprised it doesn't rain.
Why AI and belief in AI leaders has turned into a religion? A devoted cult?

Because both sides don't have conclusive arguments?
Yup, part of what I enjoy about meat is precisely that it is a real food, and part of what I enjoy about coffee is that it is a real food too. Both can be relatively minimally processed, and recognisably the thing that they came from.

I don’t particularly mind that synthetic meat-like substance or coffee-like substance be produced, but I 100% do not want it to be the default, I want it clearly named and labelled, and I want there to be no chance that I unknowingly ingest it.
Are we facing a Byzantine generals kind of situation now?
Actually they do start talking about it in the video at the top of the page, but they don't complete it.
The image from a single curved mirror or lens will have distortions that can be reduced by adding additional curved mirrors/lenses. It's also harder to make and use large diameter lenses than mirrors. Each lens has two surfaces that need to be aligned without the possibility of post-fabrication calibration. Weight and sagging are a bigger problem for lenses. Mirrors can be thinner, partially hollow, and can have mechanical support behind them without blocking light. There are further considerations that might favor mirrors, like material cost and reaction to temperature changes. If nothing else, bending the light path back and forth with mirrors means the telescope can be shorter, easier to point, and will fit in a smaller building.

The largest exclusively lens based ("refractor") telescopes got up to about 1 meter diameter before the trade offs caused a shift to mirrors for larger apertures. Even so, it's common to have lenses near the focal plane of a mirror based ("reflector") telescope to improve the image. Vera Rubin is like that, including a 1.5 meter lens (among others) near the sensor.

The sensor doesn't actually form a blind spot in the image, because it is severely out of focus. Obstructions do affect the pattern of light a star forms on the sensor, but it's all relative, and no mirror or lens can produce perfect images.
No. This is a terrible idea
If anyone has a few hours free, I'd recommend this documentary about Eve Online - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCSeISYcoyI
If you want to research yourself, here's the Arabic version of Al Jazeera's Israel-Palestine coverage translated to English:

https://www-aljazeera-net.translate.goog/where/arab/palestin...
There are 2 kinds of security:

The first kind of security involves increasing the security for as many people and systems as you can.

The second kind of security involves making your numbers look good by saying "We don't support that any longer."

Microsoft seems interested in the second kind. They are going to ditch support for widely used legacy systems, so they are not blamed when those systems get hacked.

Microsoft should offer support every Microsoft product ever released that still has 1 million active users. Imagine Microsoft using a single Hyper-V install, then letting you run any Microsoft product that is commonly used for $5 to $25 each. That would pay for a lot of security and profit. Just firewalling the legacy systems in the way Cisco does with ACLs would greatly improve their security. A more comprehensive next-generation firewall would be better. Their software engineers could look at every likely vulnerability for their products, and offer one of several kinds of patches: (1) A firewall patch that makes such exploits unlikely to get through, (2) a patch to the hypervisor that inspects the VM and prevents or removes the exploit, or (3) a patch to the software itself that removes the vulnerability. These could work together, with the software itself detecting the problem and asking the hypervisor to do the cleanup. Using this combination of methods, Microsoft's engineers should be able to deal with every known exploit.
Tldr. is that he's vaguely arguing for neuro symbolic ai without proposing anything specific that's implementable let alone building it himself. It's just snarky pointing out flaws and kvetching at people who actually build stuff with him.
So... A single company has just spent about 0.1% of the US GDP in a pet project, and it's not even the leading one on the market?

That's just incredible, and not a good thing.
The idea is that it's irresponsible to diffuse the limited amount of effort by launching your own desktop environment project rather than contributing your talents to one of KDE or GNOME.

I don't ever see myself using this DE, but the fact that it seems to be one guy's labor of love kind of makes me happy.
gee, people can't take a bit of humor to make a point?
10 acres of farmland is worth around $30,000 its also 200 meters by 200 meters they probably don't need much of a tractor and can probably do with one truck for what amounts to a hobby nobody could live on.

The USDA says a small family farm averages around 231 acres or about $693,000 in land. Even adding the equipment its a long way from 10M in assets and that isn't even accounting for the elephant in the room DEBT.

Any sole proprietorship which is net positive to the tune of 10M is in fact by any reasonable measure wealthy.
It’s really not that hard. I have found that writing robust shell scripts is pretty easy.

Don’t use bash, stick to #!/bin/sh, use shellcheck, wrap all variables in quotes, use command -v to check if a binary is available before trying to use it, and don’t use gnu specific things.
Wasn't a key thing of the xz attack vector that people where encouraged to download the custom source release instead of the autogenerated Github one? I don't know if that is a pattern but it seems like best practices in the (source) supply-chain could prevent a large class of these attacks.
Unrelated but I found this interesting:

I knew SoHo in NYC is derived from South of Houston but I always thought that the name was given with London’s Soho in mind, so it was backronym-like. I just checked what Soho is to the south of in London and turns out the name is not an abbreviation, it’s derived from a rallying cry in hunting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho